I think there might have been one of two mentions of it being something they were considering possibly doing in the future, but nothing official has ever been announced. IDW's contract only includes TOS and TNG, so I'm really not sure how they would handle Tuvok and Melora if they did do this.

I haven't heard of any Titan Series coming soon. But I did express interest tot the IDW Trek Editor if they ever did one. I would love to provide some art for that or any other series for them for that matter.

I'd love a Titan comic. And while I'd be okay with mini-series and one-shots, I'd much rather have a monthly ongoing title. Maybe it's broken up into four to eight issue story arcs, but keep those numbers climbing.

^^Well, for what it's worth, there are some major gaps in the Titan chronology. The first three volumes are pretty close together, but from Orion's Hounds to Sword of Damocles is two and a half months, from SoD to Destiny is nearly eight months, and from Destiny to the main body of Over a Torrent Sea is... well, more than a few weeks. So there's plenty of room that TTN comics could fill in.

^ I assume he means the challenges involved in keeping up with the series when Titan has such a tight continuity. TNG was never a problem, because it was fairly episodic, but some of the DS9 books had problems when they tried to keep up with the show and the changing circumstances of the characters. Miniseries, like Christopher speculated, can be set in the gaps, but a monthly series would have to juggle what I assume would be its own internal continuity with the novels changing things up 'off-screen' at regular intervals. I think it could be done, but I think miniseries would be better suited.

As Christopher points out, there are massive gaps in the novel chronology. And it's not like the novels couldn't be worked into the series as necessary. DC managed to work the third and fourth films into their comics continuity, and Marvel worked "The Cage" into Early Voyages by retelling some of its events from a new perspective.

The advantage to mini-series is that they can mimic the same event-driven, epic storytelling that the novel lines deliver today. The advantage to an ongoing series with single issue storytelling and longer story arcs is that it mimics the episodic nature of the television series that has, to some extent, been lost.

I'm not trying to be dense by saying that I don't see the problem with coordinating an ongoing comics series with an ongoing novel series. If Mike Friedman could do it for a whole lotta years for DC with TNG by carving out six-issue blocks within seasons for him to tell small and big stories, I've no doubt that Pocket and IDW could equally work out something that would work.

Titan is an episodic series too, not unlike TNG. Yes, it has occasional transitions like character departures and developing romances and such, but when the installments are set anywhere from two to eight months apart, that's pretty much the definition of episodic storytelling. So no, maybe a comic couldn't tell stories that could make radical changes in the characters' lives, but that goes for most tie-in comics as a rule.

^^Well, for what it's worth, there are some major gaps in the Titan chronology. The first three volumes are pretty close together, but from Orion's Hounds to Sword of Damocles is two and a half months, from SoD to Destiny is nearly eight months, and from Destiny to the main body of Over a Torrent Sea is... well, more than a few weeks. So there's plenty of room that TTN comics could fill in.

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Oh, I didn't realize there was that much time between each book. I had figured we were pretty much just gone from one adventure/mission straight to the next one.

The advantage to mini-series is that they can mimic the same event-driven, epic storytelling that the novel lines deliver today. The advantage to an ongoing series with single issue storytelling and longer story arcs is that it mimics the episodic nature of the television series that has, to some extent, been lost.

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Although IDW has now done two TOS mini-series set in "Year Four", with some potential overlaps (eg. developing Arex; perhaps setting up Chekov to move into security?), and a promise of more to come. The graphic novel omnibus reprints have numbered spines which should climb if/when more is done.

As Christopher points out, there are massive gaps in the novel chronology. And it's not like the novels couldn't be worked into the series as necessary. DC managed to work the third and fourth films into their comics continuity, and Marvel worked "The Cage" into Early Voyages by retelling some of its events from a new perspective.

The advantage to mini-series is that they can mimic the same event-driven, epic storytelling that the novel lines deliver today. The advantage to an ongoing series with single issue storytelling and longer story arcs is that it mimics the episodic nature of the television series that has, to some extent, been lost.

I'm not trying to be dense by saying that I don't see the problem with coordinating an ongoing comics series with an ongoing novel series. If Mike Friedman could do it for a whole lotta years for DC with TNG by carving out six-issue blocks within seasons for him to tell small and big stories, I've no doubt that Pocket and IDW could equally work out something that would work.

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Seems as though all of us want to do it. It can be done. It just needs an editor or two who wants the headache.